OH MY GOT: Season 8 episode 2 recap

Big reveals, shocking decisions and more reunions in one of the most exciting episodes of Game of Thrones ever. Season 8 — Episode 2 recap.

Maisie Williams thought her sex scene was a joke when she first read the script. Picture: APSource:AP

A girl does not tell jokes.

Maisie Williams thought Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were messing with her when she first read Arya Stark would have a sex scene in the final season of the hit HBO series.

“At first, I thought it was a prank,” the 22-year-old actor told Entertainment Weekly.

In previous seasons, some cast members, like Kit Harington, had received joke scripts with fake storylines for their character, the New York Post reported.

Maisie Williams thought the producers were playing a prank on her when she read about her sex scene with Gendry. Picture: SuppliedSource:Foxtel

“I was like, ‘Yo, good one.’ And [the showrunners were] like, ‘No, we haven’t done that this year.’ Oh f — k!” she said. “I got to the read-through and I’m reading the scene and thought, ‘Oh, we’re actually going to do this. When do I shoot this? I need to go to the gym.’ A whole list of things.”

This combination photo shows Maisie Williams at HBO's Game of Thrones final season premiere and as Arya Stark. Picture: HBO/Evan Agostini/Invision/APSource:AP

Benioff and Weiss told her she could choose how much skin she showed during the scene, in which her character sleeps with Gendry (Joe Dempsie) on the eve of the Battle of Winterfell.

“I kept myself pretty private,” she said, adding, “I don’t think it’s important for Arya to flash. This beat isn’t really about that. And everybody else has already done it on the show.”

This article was originally published in the New York Post and has been reproduced here with permission.